Southern Cross Healthcare (New Zealand)

Southern Cross Healthcare (New Zealand)

Southern Cross Healthcare is a not-for-profit New Zealand healthcare insurance and health services provider. [" [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=366&objectid=10344527 Healthy profit for Southern Cross] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Thursday 08 September 2005] It is the largest New Zealand health insurance company, with 831,256 people holding policies with the company as of December 2007 (almost a fourth of the population, and 60% of the health insurance market). [" [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=366&objectid=10469741 Health cover under the knife] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Sunday 14 October 2007] The strong growth has been attributed to the increasing delays for elective surgery in public hospitals in New Zealand," [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=366&objectid=10487870 Surgery worries create insurance boom] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Monday 21 January 2008] and the insurance company now funds more such operations than the public sector." [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=366&objectid=10378138 Private hospitals offer to chip in] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Thursday 20 April 2006]

The organisation also has a chain of 10 hospitals and surgery centres (March 2007 data), [" [http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=366&objectid=10428879 Public sector keeps respectable distance] " - "The New Zealand Herald", Thursday 15 March 2007] which are also operated as not-for-profit, though not all operations funded by the insurance arm are undertaken here, and the hospitals also undertake some publicly funded operations.

See also

*Southern Cross Auckland Surgical Centre
*Southern Cross Hospital North Harbour

References

External links

* [http://www.southerncross.co.nz/ Southern Cross Healthcare] (official company website)


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